Plant-based meats =/= plant-based foods

It's also worth looking at one of the big points criticism actually is, which is that it's such a broad label as to not be meaningful. If I lumped candy and apples together for being glucose-containing foods, we'd have a pretty poor understanding of the actual effects of apples. They point to studies on specific categories going differing ways

As a side note, it also tends to only get applied to justify whatever people want to already think. Like adding protein isolate/powder makes something automatically become a high category processed food and yet people are buying protein-XYZ products with protein isolate added to them while being against UPFs

The conversation has an extremely robust editorial process and articles must be well founded.

What specific claims is Garrett making here that you believe misrepresent the evidence?

I’m FOR plant based foods but denying that much of what’s out there is ultra processed and can be harmful I don’t think is right.

The article doesn't do that though. The main argument seems to be that ultraprocessed foods are not all equivalently bad, which is pretty obvious when you think about it for a second. Like yeah drinking sugary soda each day is obviously gonna do you way more harm than a pot of yoghurt with breakfast.

Did you read the article? It also cites studies similar to the ones you linked. For instance:

One consistent result stands out: People who consume more ultraprocessed foods are at higher risk for multiple chronic diseases and early death.

I guess it makes sense, since the UPF framework literally and explicitly disregards substance in favor of a notion of pure sourcing. As with the genetic fallacy, it can be a useful heuristic but is ultimately unsound.

The writier beinh the presidente of a group that he talks about in this article automatically disqualifies the aeticle, it is disinformation, because its just a not so well hidden ad